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A Guessing Game (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

It's easy. W is a vowel in Welsh. It sounds similar to ö in German and it can be modified as ŵ to elongate the sound such as in the word dŵr which means water.

Wrwgwai or Wcrain (for example) are the natural way to spell those countries using the Welsh alphabet. Its a highly phonetic language believe it or not.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

In English it is literally called 'double u'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Even tho it's more like a double v. Always struck me as odd.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Afaik, comes from Latin that had no "U" and "V" was both vowel and consonant until some point in time.

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